Telic

December 4, 2007 - 2:46 pm [ Reply ]


Changes in v6.30.20300 from v6.25.20300
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- more information now recorded and displayed when auto-noting Party members
When hovering over the "Parties : " label on the Contact note, NotesUNeed will display a tooltip with the following information :
a.) Which of your Alts has partied with that player
b.) How many times that Alt has partied with that player
c.) The date on which that Alt last partied with that player

- Verbose Guild Reporting now 'toned down' a little, and now completely silent when turned off

- fixed a problem displaying the NuN Tooltip when using the "Tooltip" key word in the Contact note user definable buttons

- updated BG detection to prevent party member noting in Battlegrounds where parties can often be random with players from different Realms
(Parties pre-made before entering the BG obviously WILL be noted if the option is enabled)

Telic

December 1, 2007 - 10:59 am [ Reply ]


Changes in v6.25.20300 from v6.05.20300
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NEW FUNCTIONALITY IN LFM FRAME
- support for NuN Buttons on the Looking For More Frame

- new Tooltip support when mousing over players on the LFM Frame :
NotesUNeed will display an extra Tooltip to show Player Ratings for all party members you have noted



NEW FUNCTIONALITY TO COLOUR TEXT
- can now select your own text colours in notes via colour selection buttons on the note frames.
There are 5 Preset colour buttons, and one Custom colour button for opening the Colour Picker Frame to choose any other colour.
So simply, highlight the text you want to colour in and click on the colour you want.
You MUST highlight the text you want to colour by USING THE MOUSE.
(i.e. text highlighted by holding down the <Shift> key and using the keyboard arrows will not be coloured by NuN)

- Preset colour buttons
1.) Left click to apply the colour to highlighted text
2.) Right click to open up the colour picker and choose your own preset colour choice
3.) <Alt>-Right click to reset the preset colour to its default value

- Custom colour button
1.) Left click to open up the Colour Picker Frame and choose a colour.
NOTE that the colour is NOT applied to the text until you click the "Okay" button.
2.) Right click on the Custom colour button to Toggle the display of the colour Tags in the text.
NOTE : YOU CAN NOT USE THE BUTTONS TO COLOUR TEXT WHILE SHOWING COLOUR TAGS !!!
The Custom colour button will remember the last colour you chose (even between sessions).

- improved native support for manually entered colour codes
i.e. you can now type in your own colour code tags and they will be applied when you save the note
(e.g. "colour the word |cff0000ffblue|r with the colour it describes")
General type Note names can also be coloured by manually applying colour tags.

PLEASE SEE THE "Whatever you do DONT READ THIS.txt" FILE FOR MORE DETAILS



NEW FUNCTIONALITY FOR NOTING ALTS
- can now include the names of People's Alts in their Tooltip.
Their Note text needs to include the name of their Alts in the format :
<ALT:Altname1>
<ALT:Altname2>
etc.

- with the Guild Frame Open, and a Players Note open, you can specify their Alts by :
<Alt>-Clicking on the other Guild member NuN Note symbols for Alts of that Player
This will paste the ALT's name in to the currently open Player note, where it will then be visible in the Tooltip for that Player



MISCALLANEOUS
- new Text box on the Transmit Note frame detailing the delay between messages, and allowing easy update of this value
NOTE that you have to press <Enter> or click on Transmit for the value in this edit box to be saved.
(Not all messages are sent with a delay e.g. Whispers, Party, etc.)

- included a checkbox for toggling NuN Microbuttons on the NuN Options frame

- Cosmos Feature Frame button for accessing NuN Options

- NuN Tooltips will now try to inherit the Alpha settings of the Game and WorldMap Tooltips to try and be compatible with other AddOns that change these settings

- fixed a problem when removing friends

- fixed a problem displaying Abandoned Quests in Red text

- code clean up and greatly reduced the number of Global and Local Variables

Telic

November 6, 2007 - 9:41 am [ Reply ]

I'm hopefully gonna get my gaming account back on line in the next few weeks - but until then I need you NuNs out there to keep on reporting errors even when they seem SO obvious... ;)


Changes in v6.03.20200 from v6.02.20200
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- Guild notes should only be created when the Option is turned on !

Telic

November 4, 2007 - 6:08 pm [ Reply ]

Changes in v6.02.20200 from v6.01.20200
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- as some people are still seeing the WhoFrame, I have changed this functionality.
You shouldn't see when NuN "/who"s somebody, but at worst now, you should only see Chat Frame /who information.

- as a last resort, anyone still having trouble with the /who command can use the following slash command
/nun -restrictwho
This command will stop NotesUNeed from automatically requesting Who information. The Who button in Player notes should still work for manual requests.
(There is also an "/nun -alternatviewho" command available that people can use to modify the NuN Who without disabling it)

- the following slash commands now report status.
/nun -delay [number of seconds] -- [number of seconds] is optional; If ommitted then the current value will be reported.
/nun -restrictwho
/nun -alternativewho

Telic

November 3, 2007 - 2:09 am [ Reply ]


OK : ABSOLUTELY NO MORE FEATURE REQUESTS FOR A MONTH ;P
I'M ONLY GONNA FIX BUGS FOR A WHILE AFTER THIS RELEASE.

Changes in v6.01.20200 from v6.00.20200
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- can now hold down the <Alt> key in order to show the full NotesUNeed tooltip when Mousing Over other players in the 3D world.
i.e. holding down the <Alt> key temporarily cancels the "Minimise MouseOver Target Tooltips" Option.
NOTE: pressing <Alt> won't immediately change the NuN Tooltip from a minimised to a full tooltip on its own. You will have to refresh the Game Tooltip by moving the mouse away, and holding the <Alt> key down when you Mouse Over that target again.

Telic

November 2, 2007 - 3:25 pm [ Reply ]

Changes in v6.00.20200 from v5.59.20200
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- NEW Button on the Options Frame to capture User Defined Mouse & Keyboard modifiers to use when creating notes from Items / Links.
Simply Left/Right Click without any modifier keys to choose which Mouse Button to use.
Hold down required Modifer Keys & Click to Save the specific keyboard Modifiers to use.
Modified Left Click : Records left or right keyboard buttons as the same modifier key
Modified Right Click : Records left and right keyboard buttons as different modifiers
Default is still <Alt>-Left Click
The Text on the Button itself reflects what the mouse button & modifier combo is currently.
SEE THE README.TXT FOR FURTHER EXAMPLES OF HOW TO USE THIS BUTTON

- Player Rating via the Right click context menu has a new addition.
The first button is an option to open a NotesUNeed note for that Player without "Rating" them.
The other rating options are still present and will assign a Player rating without opening a note.
All the options will create a note for the Player in question if no NotesUNeed note already exists.
If you hold down the <Alt> key while choosing a Rating, then the NuN Note will also be opened.

- Added a Drop Down box listing all your Alts to the Quest History frame;
So that you can now browse the Quest History for any of your Alts no matter which one you have logged in with.
Obviously, you will have needed to have logged in to these Alts at some stage with a version of NotesUNeed enabled.

- More information about Guild, Race, Class, and Sex should be gathered automatically without needing you to manually select details.
Some information requires you to have Partied with, or Targetted people when creating the note;

- New slash commands for Sending/Broadcasting notes :
/nun -sendG "NOTE_NAME", "SEND_METHOD"[, "SEND_PARAMETER"] -- sends General type note text
/nun -sendGF "NOTE_NAME", "SEND_METHOD"[, "SEND_PARAMETER"] -- sends General type note as Formatted text
/nun -sendC "NOTE_NAME", "SEND_METHOD"[, "SEND_PARAMETER"] -- sends Contact type note text
/nun -sendCF "NOTE_NAME", "SEND_METHOD"[, "SEND_PARAMETER"] -- sends Contact type note as Formatted text
where -
"NOTE_NAME" = the name of the note or note title
"SEND_METHOD" = how to send the note e.g. "GUILD", "RAID", "WHISPER", "CHANNEL", etc.
"SEND_PARAMETER" = Optionally required (i.e. who to WHISPER to -OR- the Channel ID/Name)
NOTE: using any of these slash commands will close any currently open note.

- Added a delay between lines sent when Broadcasting/Transmitting notes to other Players on Channels.
Default delay is 0.33 seconds (i.e. roughly 3 lines a second)
Use slash command "/nun -delay <#_SECONDS>" to change the default delay time

- The "Who" information button should now work with 1 click

- Added Options to automatically maintain Notes for all Guild Members.

- There is a verbose option for Guild noting, and NotesUNeed will report the total number of members (and the number currently online)
NotesUNeed will also note the names of new members, or members who have left the Guild since the last changes NotesUNeed recorded.

- various bug fixes including a problem with the Mass Delete functionality, and made sure it tidies up after itself

- various changes to clean up the code

Version 6 Credits
_________________

All the following players for their suggestions, and testing feedback :
Hristo, drubear, acapela, SiNNeR, Nihlo, PeterPater, stgn, AlexejK

...and a poke in the eye for those who said they'd test, but didn't ;p

Telic

September 27, 2007 - 5:51 pm [ Reply ]

Changes in v5.59.20200 from v5.59.20100
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- 20200 compatibility changes and update

Hopefully, this should fix the main problems.

NOTE that a small amount of functionality has been disabled in this version but I suspect it won't impact many people, if anyone. Basically you won't be able to create Notes from Quest Frame Items by &lt;Alt&gt;-&lt;Shift&gt;-Clicking.

Alternate version to be released at http://www.curse-gaming.com%22" target="_blank target="_blank when this version is stable.

If you have more problems with NotesUNeed, then please enable error reporting, and if you can, try to log in with only NotesUNeed enabled.
(Or, if you use an Error reporting AddOn, then only enable NuN and that AddOn)
I need to know exact error messages and line numbers.

As I don't have the game installed atm, if anyone could send me a zip file of the latest 2.2 \FrameXML and BLIZZARD \AddOns directories to telic@hotmail.co.uk, then it would be appreciated ;)


Let me know if this is Working OK :)

Telic

August 9, 2007 - 6:24 am [ Reply ]


Changes in v5.58.20100 from v5.57.20003
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- added a key binding for toggling the last opened NotesUNeed pin-up tooltip

- added the following methods for Note Transmission/Broadcast :
OFFICER : can now send notes to the Guild Officers channel in addition to the GUILD channel
RAID-WARNING : Raid warning messages
BATTLEGROUND : support for Battleground Raid groups in addition to the normal RAID channel

- fixed a small description problem for one of the key bindings

Telic

February 25, 2007 - 11:51 am [ Reply ]


!!! BIG AUTHOR ANOUNCEMENT !!!


Well folks,

That's all from me - I'm giving up WoW and therefore won't be able to maintain my AddOns from now on. I'm starting a new job, and its just time to move on.

Thanks for all the support, and I hope you still find these AddOns continue to work for some time to come - otherwise you'll just have to find some other poor sucker to maintain 'em ;)

If anyone is interested the following AddOns will be orphaned :
NotesUNeed,
AlphaMap (Fan's Update),
PartySpotter,
MozzFullWorldMap (Fan's Update),
MapNotes (Fan's Update),
WorldBossStrategyGuide,
Neptunia's MapNotes Skin


I'll be around for a few more days, but then you're on your own.


SLATFATF,

Telic :)

Telic

February 13, 2007 - 6:08 am [ Reply ]

Changes in v5.56.20003 from v5.55.20003
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- small change to the behaviour of the MapNotes NotesUNeed Tooltips
The NotesUNeed Popup list of Notes will now disappear immediately when your Mouse leaves a MapNote.
If you want the List to stay Open so that you can view the NotesUNeed Tooltip for individual notes, or Click on the Note to open it, then hold down the <Control> key and the NotesUNeed Popup list of notes will stay open.

- small change to Quest Recording to make sure Notes are created more promptly when accepting quests

- double check to prevent a rare error when logging in with other Quest AddOns installed

Telic

January 31, 2007 - 10:57 am [ Reply ]

Changes in v5.55.20003 from v5.50.20003
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- added basic ability to change the font used in Edit Boxes where you type text
Basically, I have supplied an alternative font that can be used in game by Ticking the new "NuN Font" Check Box Option.
The supplied font is the free Vera Sans Mono (True Type) font - a monospaced font that simplifies text allignment e.g. in Script style notes.
If you want to use your own Font when editing notes, then simply copy your font in to the following directory and re-name it to "NuN.ttf"
Interface\AddOns\NotesUNeed\Artwork

- corrected a problem with the Friend/Ignore list functionality when targetting the individual, and now make sure note symbols are updated immediately

- double checks now in place to make sure you can NOT delete Friend/Ignore Notes if using NotesUNeed to automatically maintain Friend/Ignore Lists

Telic

January 19, 2007 - 4:42 am [ Reply ]

Changes in v5.47.20003 from v5.46.20003
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- updated the Race and Profession drop down boxes to include Burning Crusade options
(I've been very lazy and just added the new races/professions after the last entries in the drop down boxes, rathter than re-arranging in alphabetical order - it means I don't have to write a conversion routine to update old notes, or during note exchange between different language clients)
NOTE : Sending of Contact style notes to users of older versions of NotesUNeed is unsafe where the Contact references one of the new Races/Professions

Telic

January 11, 2007 - 3:59 am [ Reply ]

Changes in v5.46.20003 from v5.45.20000
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- toc update

- only reset the map when a QuestWatch_Update functions confirm that an objective has been completed, to cater for other AddOns that call the function continuously

- Blizzard's Patch 2.03 should fix all other WoW v2.xx Blocked Action issues

Telic

January 6, 2007 - 11:40 am [ Reply ]

Changes in v5.45.20000 from v5.42.20000
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- NEW Microbutton functionality.
1.) can now quickly access Quest History notes by Right-Clicking on Search Microbutton (i.e. the Magnifying glass)
2.) can now quickly access the list of General Notes by Alt-LeftClicking on the Search Microbutton

- Chat Frame Hooks changed which should fix problems connected to Pet Bars and handling, when pets are summoned during combat

- With a Mob/NPC targetted, using either the Player or General Microbutton will open/create a note for that Mob/NPC

- when noting completion of Quest objectives, Zero messages will be ignored as they aren't useful and just take up space

- fixed the bug of the Save button not working for general notes if still editing the title (withouth ever having moved the text cursor to the main body of text) Hopefully that should fix the problem as it was reported. (Thanks to Giddily for the Pic. ;)

Telic

December 23, 2006 - 7:24 am [ Reply ]

Changes in v5.42.20000 from v5.40.20000
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- updated more function hooks to ensure secure hooking is used where indicated by function attributes. Especially for PaperDoll frame, but also even if no visible errors were noted previously.
(Should fix the Blocked Action error when using Items directly from the Character sheet)

- fixed the ability to create notes from the character sheet
NOTE : ONLY need to <Alt><Left Click> on Character sheet items to create/paste in to NotesUNeed notes.
(i.e. no need to use the <Shift> key on Character sheet items, and users of the Alternate version of NotesUNeed should also simply <Alt><Left Click>)

- fixed a small issue when clicking on Ignored players in the Social frame to make sure any open Contact note is updated - as per functionality on the other pages of the Social frame.

- fixed a small bug when deleting Quest History entries by Right Clicking and confirming deletion

NOTE: Again, PetDismiss and Duel errors can't be fixed (as far as I know) without removing the Right click Player Rating functionality; Sorry, but I'm not willing to remove the functionality atm, only to have to put it back in again when Blizzard fix the issues in their next patch. So check the "NotesUNeed and WoW2.xx.txt" file included in the archive - or check earlier Patch notes below for more details.

Telic

December 22, 2006 - 12:44 pm [ Reply ]

Changes in v5.40.20000 from v5.30.20000
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- NotesUNeed will now record the locations where Quest Objectives/Items were achieved/dropped if you are auto-noting Quests
For example if a quest is called "Kobold Camp Cleanup" and you are auto-noting Quests, then NotesUNeed will record 2 notes for the Quest.
One called "Kobold Camp Cleanup" which stores the quest details from each stage of the quest; And one called "Kobold Camp Cleanup:Objectives" which will record your Map locations when objectives were completed / quest items received.
Character specific details of when you Accepted, Completed and Handed In a quest on a given character is still only available when browsing QuestHistory while logged in as that character - by viewing the toolip when mousing over the list of quests after selecting to Search for NotesUNeed QuestHistory from the Options frame.

- as a result of some old changes in previous versions (forced by changes in WoW), new line characters (carriage returns) now use up 2 characters in the text box.
Because of this, the number of characters being reported in the NotesUNeed edit boxes has not been an accurate guide, but this has now been fixed.


NOTE: it seems that the WoW Patch 2.02 may never arrive, so included here are further compatibility changes for WoW Patch 2.xx

- fixed the Blocked Action issues when using/disenchanting bag items

- PetDismiss problems have been fixed in the latest Burning Crusade Beta, and there doesn't seem to be a way for me to fix them until the Blizzard patch is released (without removing the Right Click Menu Player Rating buttons).
The problem can be avoided by NOT using the NotesUNeed Right Click Player Rating functionality. (Sadly, you can't even roll your mouse over the Player Rating button in the Right Click menu, so the safest way to close a Right Click menu is to use the Escape key - you can still use all the other options on the menu)
If you do get the issue, you can use the following script to cleanse your execution path :
/script ReloadUI();
The above script is case sensitive, and allows you to re-load your User Interface without having to completely log out and back in again

- Duelling Blocked Action issues have not been fixed in the latest Burning Crusade Beta. But the slash command still works.
(If anyone can explain to me why the Duel function is Secure I'd be interested to hear? I've been struggling to come up with a way in which I could cheat during a battle/raid by challenging people to duels ^^)

Basically, I'm hoping that once Blizzard release a Patch, then the only permanent problem will be with Duelling from the Right Click menu - and as people can still use the Slash Commands, I'm not gonna worry about it.

Please READ the "NotesUNeed and WoW2.xx.txt" file included in the archive/zip file for NotesUNeed v5.40.20000 for any further details, clarification. (Or if you receive Unfinished String errors)

Telic

December 15, 2006 - 3:45 pm [ Reply ]

Please READ the 'NotesUNeed and WoW2.01.txt' included in the Zip file.

Sorry if that instruction was not clear. I mention it in the Known Bugs section above, but I'll try to be clearer :

you will get messages saying certain Actions have been blocked by NotesUNeed.

The Blizzard 2.02 patch is meant to be fixing many of these issues - and I am not going to be fixing them until we see what the next WoW Patch does.

I will address any remaining errors AFTER the 2.02 Patch.

Again, I am sorry, but I put the blame for this squarely on Blizzard. I wasted a lot of time investigating these kinds of issues for MapNotes (Fan's Update), only to find that Blizzard intend to fix things from their side instead - its just a shame that 2.02 was not released on 12/12/06, and that we have to wait at least another week.

(The work around for using bag items is to move it to an Action bar slot, and left click on it.)

Telic

December 14, 2006 - 7:03 am [ Reply ]


!!! Make a MANUAL (i.e. outside of the game) Backup of your
/WTF/Account/[ACCOUNT_NAME]/SavedVariables/NotesUNeed.lua
file before upgrading and logging in to WoW with this version !!!

WoW Patch 2.xx Compatible Beta Version (Awaiting some Blizzard bug fixes in v2.02)

IF YOU HAVE RECEIVE 'UNFINISHED STRING' ERRORS WHEN LOGGING IN TO WOW YOU MUST READ THE FILE "NotesUNeed and WoW2.01.txt".

OR if you updated the TOC of the old version yourself, and received the above error, you MUST Read the file above.
Your notes may seem to have disappeared, but you should also check the /SavedVariables/NotesUNeed.lua.bak file, as they may have been copied there when you encountered the above error.

The new version of WoW can object to some notes made in earlier versions of WoW. Sorry, but there is nothing I can change in the code to fix this. Its just another one of those undocumented changes to the way WoW treats text strings in the SavedVariables files, and if you suffer from this error, you should read the above file, that is included in the zip file.

This file also explains about the Blocked Action messages you may receive, that will hopefully be fixed when the Blizzard 2.02 Patch is released.

Telic

December 12, 2006 - 8:05 am [ Reply ]

Again, sorry for delays. Assuming that Blizzard apply their 2.02 Patch tomorrow - I'm waiting for that to be installed before I release an update.

I already wasted a lot of time fixing MapNotes (Fan's Update), only to find the 2.02 Blizzard Patch is going to fix the PetDismiss() issue anyway.

Basically there are a couple of bugs in the version I'm working on, and i want to see if the 2.02 patch will fix the issues - or if I really have to fix something from my side.

Thanks for your patience so far :)

Telic

December 5, 2006 - 2:34 pm [ Reply ]

Been very busy working on MapNotes (Fan's Update) and AlphaMap (Fan's Update).

New patch update coming soon...

Telic

November 26, 2006 - 5:50 am [ Reply ]


Changes in v5.26.11200 from v5.25.11200
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- Important Bug Fix for Right Click Menu Functionality

Telic

November 25, 2006 - 7:40 am [ Reply ]

v5.25.11200 UNPACKS DIRECT TO THE /WOW/INTERFACE/ADDONS FOLDER

NOTE: v5.25.11200.A is an Alternate version where the short cut key for creating notes when clicking on Items/Hyperlinks has been changed from <Alt><Shift>-Click to use <Control><Shift>-Click instead. This is mainly for players using different language clients where the pressing of <Alt> and <Shift> would result in a language change, rather than NotesUNeed functionality.

Telic

November 10, 2006 - 7:00 am [ Reply ]

v5.10.11200 UNPACKS DIRECT TO THE /WOW/INTERFACE/ADDONS FOLDER

As Blizzard now include their own AddOns in the above folder structure by default when you install the game, I've finally moved away from unzipping in to the base /WoW directory, so previous users should take care when installing :)

Telic

October 27, 2006 - 1:51 pm [ Reply ]

Changes in v5.00.11200 from v4.53.11100 - MAJOR RELEASE
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BACKUP & RESTORE FUNCTIONS
==========================
- added new "Backup" and "Restore" options. This functionality is kept under a second AddOn/folder name of "NotesUNeed_Backup", which allows it to be Load On Demand. See the 'Backup and Restore Functionality' section of the Readme.txt file for more details.


IMPORT & EXPORT FUNCTIONS
==========================
- New Export button available on the Notes Search/Browser frame. So search for the notes you want to Export, so that they appear in this frame, and then click on Export. You will be prompted for a name to call the record set you are exporting. Confirm export of the records, and you will be informed of how many notes were exported in the Chat window.
The exported records will be recorded in the file NotesUNeed_Export.lua, in the same SavedVariables folder as your normal NotesUNeed.lua database file.
Once you have created a set of records, then the Export button can ONLY be used to add more notes to that record set.
If you want to delete the records you have exported and create a completely new record set with a different name, then you must use the Slash command "/purgeexport". This clears the NotesUNeed_Export.lua file in the saved variables directory, and you can then use the Export button to create differently named sets of exported notes. (Obviously if you want to save a set of exported records, then you must take a physical copy of the NotesUNeed_Export.lua file, before using the "/purgeexport" command.)
The Export function is kept under a second AddOn/folder name of "NotesUNeed_Export", and is Load On Demand.

- In order for another user to Import the notes you created, they need to copy your NotesUNeed_Export.lua file in to the NotesUNeed AddOn folder on their computer. (i.e. NOT their SavedVariables folder). In order to do this, they will have to replace the existing NotesUNeed_Export.lua file that already exists in their AddOn's folder. i.e. \WoW\Interface\AddOns\NotesUNeed\NotesUNeed_Export .lua

- New Import button available on the Options frame. This will only be available for use if the user has a NotesUNeed_Export.lua file in their AddOn directory which contains notes available for Import. NotesUNeed_Export.lua is blank when you first install NotesUNeed.
When the user clicks on the Import button, they will be prompted with a general name identifying the set of notes available for Import, together with the number of records that will be imported, and will be offered the choice of continuing to Import, or cancelling the action. If they click on Import, then they will receive a message in the chat window informing them of the number of records that were imported.
NOTE: Imported records are all saved at Account Level, and will overwrite any notes that already exist with that name.
Please see the Import/Export section of the Readme.txt file for further details

- NOTE : You can't export Contact notes or Quest History. Only General Notes.


GLOBAL FRIEND/IGNORE LISTS AND AUTO-NOTING
==========================================
- Completely re-written the optional Global Friend/Ignore List Maintenance functionality
So for example, when you ignore one person on one Alt, then NotesUNeed will automatically try to ignore that person when you sign in to another Alt. By default NotesUNeed will send a message to the Chat frame informing you of when it is adding/removing Friends/Ignores. New "Silent Mode" option is available, if you wish to suppress the extra messages created when NotesUNeed adjusts your lists.
You may find that NotesUNeed continues to try and adjust a Friend/Ignore when you log in - this is usually caused by trying to ignore someone who is not online, which therefore fails, and NotesUNeed will try again next time you log in. There are several aspects of this issue to consider :
1 - You can use "Silent Mode" so you don't have to see the messages
2 - If you prefer not to use "Silent Mode", so you can keep an eye on what's happening, but you are tired of trying to ignore someone who never seems to be on line, then check the extra Messages NotesUNeed is displaying to see the name of the Player NotesUNeed is trying to ignore, and do one of the following :
a.) sign in to your Alt that IS ignoring the named player, and stop ignoring them
b.) use the new "/nun -i <Player Name>" command to force NotesUNeed to stop trying to ignore the named player
3 - sometimes your NotesUNeed friend and ignore lists can be corrupted by Deleting one of your Alts which had Friends/Ignores that your other Alts were not aware of yet OR when a character on one of your lists is Deleted from the Server, and NotesUNeed keeps trying to refer to them.
In these cases, you will have to use the new "/nun -i <Player Name>" function.
When you use the "/nun -i <Player Name>" option, then if you log in to an Alt that IS ignoring that Player, NotesUNeed will remove them from that Alt's Ignore list automatically.
Note that just in case your Friends data should become corrupted, there is also a corresponding "/nun -f <Player Name>" function which will force a player to be removed from the NotesUNeed friends list.
If you wish to reset your Friends/Ignore lists to the current Friends/Ignores of the Alt you are currently logged in to, then there is a third slash command option "/nun -resetlists"
If using NotesUNeed to maintain Global Friend/Ignore Lists, then you will be unable to Delete Notes for people on these lists.
(Please note that due to the reasons mentioned earlier, it may be possible that you won't be allowed to delete a note if NotesUNeed thinks they are a Friend or Ignore, even if that person is not currently on your Friend / Ignore list - use the "/nun -i..." or "/nun -f..." slash commands to correct if needed)

- Changed the functionality of the "Auto-create note when Adding Friends/Ignores" option. It will no longer ensure that ALL your Friends and Ignores have notes, and will only do what it says, which is to make sure a note exists for an individual when you add them as a friend or ignore.
This option is mandatory if you are using the new option to use NotesUNeed to maintain global Friend/Ignore lists. This option will be automatically checked if you use NotesUNeed to maintain global Friend/Ignore lists, and you will be unable to un-check it.


CHANGE TO AUTO-LEVEL-UP NOTING
==============================
- if you have turned on the ability to auto-create notes for your own character, then when you level up, NotesUNeed will create a new General style note with a name based on your character's name and the level they have reached. For example, if you have a character called "Bigbadguy" and you have just reached level 52, then NotesUNeed will create a note called "Bigbadguy 51 - 52", and this note will contain the date and time when you levelled, plus your characters location on the map, and the Stat increases that they have been rewarded with for reaching that level.


MISCALLANEOUS
=============
- compatibility update to support upcoming release of "MapNotes (Fan's Update)"
MapNotes (Fan's Update) supports the making of notes on Atlas and/or AlphaMap Instance/Battleground/World Boss maps, plus movable notes, search feature, bug fixes and more.

- Hyperlinks pasted in to notes will now be inserted at the Cursor position, rather than added to the end of the note

- Improved support for Enchant Links in the text. Note that you can create Enchant notes, or past Enchant links in to your notes by Shift-Alt clicking on the Enchant Links within the Chat Frame. Enchant Links will now be copied to the chat frame when you use the "[]" (Hyperlinks) button in the top right of General Note frames; And Enchant Links should now Transmit properly to other users when you send them notes. Note that as part of the changes to support Enchant hyperlinks, all links are now transmitted to other users on seperate lines.
(Sorry, no support for directly pasting from the Enchant frame, but you can Shift click Links in to the Chat frame, and then Alt-Shift click the link in to NotesUNeed notes)

- Fixed a bug when searching Player notes by Class or Profession

- automatic creation of Party Notes is now suppressed when in Battlegrounds, as many if not all BG players (in AV especially) will be from different Realms.

- prevent the creation of Contact notes with the name "Unknown" (or localised equivalent)

- Added a 'Mass Delete' button to the Note Browser frame, so you can search/filter for notes you want to delete, and remove them more easily

- Change to the auto-Map Noting of Quest NPCs to ensure more reliable recording

Telic

August 24, 2006 - 4:11 am [ Reply ]

v4.52.11200 released

Telic

August 6, 2006 - 10:47 am [ Reply ]

MetaMap

Hehe, well I've been busy working on NotesUNeed for a couple of weeks or so, which means I have only tested it with version 4.81 of MetaMap which I downloaded on 31st of July. Sadly, I wasn't paying attention and MetaMap has apparently had 4 releases since then and users may have problems noting NPCs with later versions of MetaMap.

I prefer to just try and aim for one nice stable release unless an error is big enough to warrant fixing straight away, and I'm not sure I'll ever have a stable version of MetaMap to aim at.

I will take a look at one of the new versions and see what I can do, but unless you had bugs in v4.81 of MetaMap, then you may want to stick with it

combatwombat

April 8, 2006 - 2:02 am [ Reply ]

New one works great. Thanks Telic!!

combatwombat

March 31, 2006 - 7:13 am [ Reply ]

I'll look forward to an updated version. Thanks again for creating such a useful addon.

Telic

March 31, 2006 - 7:08 am [ Reply ]

Hi,

Yeah, I've had this too now that WoW 1.10 is out, when targetting NPCs/mobs. Doesn't happen consistently, and almost seems to be a slow server response, as I can acknowledge the message, then try to create a note for the same NPC again, and it works the second time...

Anyway, I believe I have a way of avoiding the error message, and will put a fix in the next release. I can't do anything about this lack of response from the server however, so target information might not always be as fully complete as possible.

combatwombat

March 30, 2006 - 3:10 pm [ Reply ]

Hi Telic, there's a problem with the new version. In fact it was in the previous version too. Target a mob and click the 3rd button to make a note of it, and this happens

Notesuneed.lua:4517 bad arg #1 to find (string expected, got nil)

Patch 1.10 is where it broke.

Many thanks.

combatwombat

February 5, 2006 - 8:01 am [ Reply ]

Hi Telic,

It doesn't always happen. I have a warlock, druid and shaman. It was fine with the warlock and shaman, then when I logged in as the druid I got the error. I suspect you are right about it being the savedvariables file. In the end I worked round by it starting afresh and logging into all the characters I play with so the database got populated with a basic set of entries and since then it has been fine. I understand it will be a hard problem to pin down and it appears to be fairly specific to me. I really like this addon and have very quickly come to regard it as essential. Many thanks for writing it,and for your helpful reply here. If I can pin this down at all I will post again.

Edit: I found a corrupted copy of the saved variables file, and here's a snippet of it. The |cf line is actually 1232 and is the last one in the file

The Crown of Will Quest Lvl : 43 \
Melisara Eastern Kingdoms, Hillsbrad Foothills, Tarren Mill, (62, 20)\
\
Deliver the Crown of Will to Sharlindra in the Undercity.\
\
\
\
All that remains is to deliver the Crown of Will to Sharlindra in the Undercity. She will see that it is delivered to Lady Sylvanas. I would warn you against thinking to use it for your own purposes, $N, Mug'Thol's fate should be illustration enough.\
\
Quest Rewards : \
|cf

Telic

February 4, 2006 - 5:19 am [ Reply ]

@combatwombat

I've never seen this error, and can't find any problem when I try to recreate it.

Mmm, strange error. Can't see any reason for it in the code, as that line doesn't contain any strings, and if the line itself was incomplete, then the AddOn wouldn't load at all. Possibly, you could download the AddOn again, and reinstall.

However, from what you have said, I have a sneaky suspicion that the NotesUNeed.lua file it is referring to might be the actual database file containing your notes in the Saved Variables directory; And this kind of error will corrupt the file and cause you to lose any notes you had.

If it crashed whenever someone logged in as a character with no notes, then nobody would be able to install and use it, as it would always crash the first time it was used.
At some point you must be creating a "corrupted" note on one of your characters, and as this is not a common problem, there are too many possibilities specific to your situation for me determine what has happened. If I was having the problem, I would play with my Main toon, then log off, and BEFORE logging on as one of the 'new' characters, I would manually inspect the NotesUNeed.lua database file in the Saved Variables directory (especially line 1232) to see if I could see any strings that had an opening " but no closing ".

Its possible that the corrupted note is being created by the new character as you log in, which is very difficult to investigate.

Does this happen to EVERY new character you create ? Or just one Alt in particular, and if so, then does this Alt have any 'special' characters in its name ?

Perhaps, turn off all the Autonoting options before you change characters, so that NotesUNeed does not try to create any new notes automatically when you log in as the other toon. Then turn the options on one at a time, and see which one causes the problem.... auto noting a Friend of that Toon, or one of its quests, or .........

combatwombat

February 3, 2006 - 7:34 am [ Reply ]

I really like NotesUneed, but there is an issue with changing to a different character. If it's one that NotesUneed has never seen there is an error about a null string in Notesuneed.lua, and all my notes are lost. Is this a known problem at all? It has happened three times now. Thanks for creating such a great addon. I'll make a note of the line number when I see it happen again.

Edit: The message is actually Unfinished string at Notesuneed.lua line 1232

Telic

January 6, 2006 - 6:57 am [ Reply ]

v3.11.1900 is WoW v1.9 compatible and should have all the graphic glitches fixed, and the Guild related error messages fixed.

I have increased the maximum scale of NotesUNeed frames to 175% for people experiencing very small frames :)

Telic

December 20, 2005 - 9:38 am [ Reply ]

@Elenesski

Thanks for the feedback; I'm glad you find NotesUNeed useful.

On the question of Quest notes - viewing standard Quest Notes only shows general information about the quest, specifically because people can have several Alts and some may have completed the Quest, some might not have accepted the quest yet, and some might not be able to even get the quest if it is Class/Faction specific. So that's why I don't store character specific information in the Quest Notes themselves. ( This is also why I went to the trouble of removing player names and classes from Quest Note text, and why the symbol $N and $C appear instead ;)

However, I did include the ability to 'Search' by 'Quest History' which shows only the quests that a specific character has had. If you look at 'Quest History' you get ticks against Quests you have completed that are no longer in your Quest Log; Viewing this way also shows what level you were when you accepted the quest and orders the Quests to show the ones you accepted most recently at the top - so over time the ones that are active will be at the top of the Quest History list with no tick mark, while the ones you have completed and handed in will be further down the list, the oldest appearing at the bottom.

Also, the Tooltip when you hover over notes in Quest History shows the status, i.e. it clearly shows when a Quest was Accepted / Completed / Handed In.
Clicking the quest here will still show the actual Quest Note if it has not been deleted.

Doesn't this 'Quest History' view answer most of your needs ?

I may investigate having an indicator to help highlight Quests that have not been completed and are not in the Quest Log i.e. abandoned.

If you still think purging options would be useful, let me know :)

Telic

Elenesski

December 19, 2005 - 10:38 am [ Reply ]

Great mod, the only thing I'd like to see is the ability to either automatically or periodically purge quests notes when I abandon or complete quests. Automatic purging occurs when you complete or abandon a quest. Periodic purging involves some batch process that compares known/active quests with the items in the quest long.

Or, some ability to see some kind of status about the quest on the search screen; i.e. that I have completed/abandoned it.

Telic

December 15, 2005 - 2:47 pm [ Reply ]

It doesn't lag my World Map toggle - and I've never heard any complaints like that before. I can't think of any logical reason why it should cause a delay at that point either.

One person has reported a slight pause when accepting / handing in quests, which I may investigate further.

Telic

StimpackAbuser

December 15, 2005 - 5:22 am [ Reply ]

Does this UI lag your computer up?
Like CT_Mod's MapMod (http://www.ctmod.net/downloads.ct), it lags my computer up soOo much when I toggle world map.